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Trump Administration Begins Layoffs at CDC, FDA and Other Health Agencies (Gift Article) The cuts were part of a Trump administration plan announced last week to dismiss 10,000 employees and drastically overhaul the Health and Human Services Department under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr...

Hundreds of federal health workers, including doctors in senior leadership positions, began hearing early Tuesday morning that they are losing their jobs, part of a vast restructuring that will winnow down the agencies.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

Make America Healthy Again!

www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

U.S. tanker is leaking fuel in the North Sea after a collision with a container ship Jet fuel is spilling into the North Sea after a U.S.-flagged fuel tanker collided with a cargo ship off the eastern coast of England. Thirty-seven people have been brought to shore.

Jet fuel is spilling into the North Sea after a U.S.-flagged fuel tanker collided with a cargo ship off the eastern coast of England. Thirty-seven people have been brought to shore.

Trump’s Veterans Affairs Secretary says his goal is firing 80,000 workers at the VA.

Because of Elon Musk and his team’s actions, more people are at risk of getting cheated by their banks, more seniors are at risk of losing Social Security, and more veterans are at risk of losing access to their benefits.

Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars' Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.

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Seriously, that has been the Republican MO since Reagan. Trump/Musk is not an anomaly. We are seeing decades of that party's work manifesting. R voters acting surprised Pikachu is mad annoying.

Here’s the link for the unpaywalled version: archive.ph/xzFUr

Also it should be not surprising at all that this group of people are predominantly white and predominantly male. Shouldn’t be the least surprising to anybody

I think I'll go with the expert on the subject at hand-- Thank you for warning, Dr. Arendt

The public really needs to understand this. Every university system in the world rests on public funding, there has never been an alternative model at any time in history.

We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.

👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.

“I don’t know anyone with Long Covid!”

I promise you that you do.

Long Covid is an invisible illness. You won’t know someone is impacted unless they choose to tell you.

Many folks hide their disabilities because the world is NOT kind to disabled people. Be an ally. Be someone we can confide in

Also, true story

As fun as this schadenfreude is, I'm pretty sure Elon is betting he's going to make more money pilfering the US government's defense budget...

a woman holding a cupcake with the words good for her above her ALT: a woman holding a cupcake with the words good for her above her

A lesson in preserverence if I've ever seen one.

How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would y...

A 2024 report found that the IRS netted savings of $13,000 for every additional hour spent auditing wealthy individuals’ tax returns — a return that “would leave Wall Street hedge fund managers drooling,” per the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

At $250 it’s STILL way overvalued

A 40-day Target boycott starts today. It couldn’t come at a worse time for the company | CNN Business Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

Posted by @attorneycrump.bsky.social:

“Target, once a corporate leader in DEI, now faces a 40-day boycott led by Rev. Jamal Bryant after scaling back its diversity efforts. The retailer currently faces declining sales, tariff pressures, and customer visits dropping more than rival competitors.”

U.S. Housing Agency Considers Launching Crypto Experiment The Department of Housing and Urban Development, which oversees billions in aid and insures more than a trillion dollars in mortgages, is pondering using the blockchain and a stablecoin. One HUD offic...

Trump’s Department of Housing and Urban Development, which oversees billions in aid and insures more than a trillion dollars in mortgages, is pondering using the blockchain and a stablecoin. One HUD official derided it as “monopoly money.”

Ok, is it just me or is that an obvious dog whistle specific to *white* South Africans...

SAVE Act Would Undermine Voter Registration for All Americans Congress should reject this antidemocratic and ill-conceived bill.

Some 21 million Americans don’t have ready access to a passport, birth certificate, or naturalization papers. And the SAVE Act would require these documents to register to vote.

The National Survey of Family Growth data shows that in 2002 the most sexually active top 20% of American heterosexual men had 12 lifetime sex partners while the top 5% had 38 partners.3 Ten years later, in 2012, the most sexually active top 20% now reported 15 lifetime sex partners and the top 5% of men reported 50 lifetime sex partners. There was no change in the median number of sex partners.

Using the Gini index, it is found that the distribution of the number of sex partners both for men and women throughout their lifespan is as unequal as the distribution of wealth among the most unequal countries in the world (South Africa Gini 0.63 in 2014 and Namibia Gini 0.59 in 2015).

Dying at this study of sexual habits that used the Gini index to compare P-in-V inequality to income inequality
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

She got her dream job at CDC back. But she's already moving on An unknown number of fired CDC workers got their jobs back this week. Among them was Bri McNulty, who had shared her story with NPR.

An unknown number of fired CDC workers got their jobs back this week. Among them was Bri McNulty, who had shared her story with NPR.

War heroes, military firsts and the Enola Gay are among 26,000 Pentagon images flagged for removal in DEI purge References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorities are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts…

In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word “gay,” including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II.

I'm torn because I thought it was super disrespectful when the Rs interrupted Obama 'in protest' - and, they are truly deluded into thinking they were principled like Al. On the other hand, it feels like we are way past any semblance of decorum in govt...

I just miss Obama and Michelle yall

BREAKING: Homeland Security suddenly and illegally announced that it's ending a legally binding collective bargaining agreement with 50,000 TSA workers and their union.

DOGE’s cuts to HUD will only make the housing crisis worse But resistance is building.

The United States has a shortage of more than 7 million affordable rental homes for low-income people. The country is also experiencing record homelessness.

DOGE’s cuts to HUD are now set to exacerbate these dueling crises. Read @juliannemcshane.bsky.social's report: